Mikaela Shiffrin, Breezy Johnson win world championships team combined; Shiffrin ties medal record
Johnson, who won the downhill world title last Saturday, had the fourth-fastest downhill run on Tuesday. Shiffrin was third-fastest in the slalom.
They prevailed by 39 hundredths of a second over Swiss Lara Gut-Behrami and Wendy Holdener.
Shiffrin tied the all-time record with her 15th career world championships medal. Shiffrin already held the modern-era record since worlds became a biennial event after World War II. In the 1930s, worlds were held annually.
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Shiffrin raced for the second time since being sidelined for two months after tearing oblique muscles in a Nov. 30 giant slalom crash.
The other U.S. pairs placed fourth (Lauren Macuga, Paula Moltzan), 10th (Jackie Wiles and Katie Hensien) and 16th (Lindsey Vonn and AJ Hurt) on Tuesday.
Vonn placed 21st in the downhill run, 2.51 seconds behind Macuga, as she continues her comeback from a five-year retirement.
Vonn plans to retire for good after the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics, should she make the team next winter, which would make the team combined her final world championships race.
Vonn will not race the last two individual events at worlds, Thursday's giant slalom and Saturday's slalom.
The team combined is making its world championships debut this year and its Olympic debut next year, replacing the individual combined.
Nations field up to four teams of one downhill skier and one slalom skier for one run each. Final standings are determined by combined times.
The U.S. pairings for worlds were determined by what U.S. Ski and Snowboard called 'data-driven selection criteria,' including 'matching the top downhill skier with the top slalom skier based off of season-best results, then moving down the list of athletes to create four potential teams.'
Worlds continue Wednesday with the men's team combined, live at 4 and 7:15 a.m. ET on Peacock.
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